From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 09:37:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B03F516A420 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:37:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A11643D46 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:37:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.54 #0 (FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE)) id 1Eh1vg-000Ivg-CI by authid for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:37:40 +0300 Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:37:40 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051129093740.GA67269@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20051128234053.GA75541@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message, where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.11 (2005-09-15) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: Re: system time "slowing down" ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:37:45 -0000 * On 28/11/05 18:47 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > >For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps > >lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few > >days I see that it's lost quite some hours again? > > > >What should I suspect? CMOS battery has been changed, but phenomena > >is still there. My localtime is set to correctly using sysinstall > >so I don't doubt it. > > If your hardware clock loses hours over the course of a few days, the > CMOS time-of-day clock is probably broken. Is ntpd able to keep your > clock sane? I'll try that option and monitor, since we have a local time server in Kenya ;) > > What does "sysctl kern.timecounter" say? beastie# sysctl kern.timecounter kern.timecounter.tick: 1 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000) kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC kern.timecounter.nsetclock: 3 kern.timecounter.ngetmicrotime: 231411 kern.timecounter.ngetnanotime: 0 kern.timecounter.ngetbintime: 0 kern.timecounter.ngetmicrouptime: 337002 kern.timecounter.ngetnanouptime: 6191 kern.timecounter.ngetbinuptime: 12350 kern.timecounter.nmicrotime: 392742 kern.timecounter.nnanotime: 892365 kern.timecounter.nbintime: 1285111 kern.timecounter.nmicrouptime: 1584 kern.timecounter.nnanouptime: 0 kern.timecounter.nbinuptime: 7282034 kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ You're at the end of the road again.